Introduction #
In a world of endless AI generated content, I want to be as transparent as possible about the impact of it on this blog.
First of all: jokes on me to start a blog in the middle of the AI hype, where “reading blogs” is basically dead - visible through the example of poor Stack Overflow.
Personally, I prefer reading some well written guides from time to time, which also lead my way to write by myself. I also learn way better when I write stuff down. But still, I use AI of course.
How is AI used in this blog? #
1. Gaining knowledge #
A lot of my posts are conclusions to topics, where I did a lot of trial and error to get result XY. In these trial and error sessions, I combine gaining knowledge through web research, reading blog posts and - of course - by asking AI to help. Because of that, AI was a “helping hand” when getting to the point, where I could summarize my new knowledge in form of a post.
2. Writing a post #
All posts are structured, composed and written by myself. AI is used for grammar checks sometimes (and sometimes not, just ignore my typos), and also giving ideas on how to write a sentence more fluent, since english is not my mother tongue. I write my posts primarily in English, the German section of this blog is mostly translated by AI, which I then revise. Revising the German part is much easier for me, since I am from Germany and know what sounds fluent and what does not.
3. Selfbuild solutions / projects #
I post a lot about zabbix templates, ansible playbooks or small projects, like my telegram bot or “Skrädda”.
In this projects, I often use AI in some kind of “vibe coding” ways.
That does NOT mean that I let it build the complete solution, and just “fire and forget” and post about it.
Through my career and experience as an IT-Systemadministrator, I always look through the code, add adjustments or code it by myself, with AI as an helping hand. A post is written only after I understood the code by the best of one’s knowledge and belief.
The goal of my projects is to understand a new topic, if I would just blindfoulded vibe-code, that would kinda miss the point.
You can usually find a specific AI disclaimer on how AI was used for the specific project in the Github repository or post itself.
This is my path of letting people decide, if they trust the project.
4. Thumbnails of my posts #
I build the thumbnails by myself with GIMP, in some rare cases the background image is generated by AI. The template I use is 100% selfmade and I always try to use roality free images for the background - but sometimes I just find nothing fitting.
5. The blog itself #
The blog is made with HUGO, a static website generator based on markdown files. As in my projects, AI was used as an helping hand for the initial setup and ongoing maintanance (adding custom functions for example).
6. Comments #
I use Comentario for the comment function on my posts, which is selfhosted on this server.
The comments don’t get revised by AI and no answers ever are generated by AI. The whole comment section is an AI free space, since that is the section, where I can get in touch with the community.
Conclusion #
This should give you an overview about the usage of AI in this blog.
Cheers (to all human readers)
torminal
